House of Brandt
Smells like tropical fruit and sugared citrus
from $11.00
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A straightforward homage to tropical, effervescent summer. It's become the brand's flagship scent, popular enough that its success directly led to the creation of an entire "Elixir" line.
Maison des Animaux
Smells like chai tea (and you're in a comfy sweater)
from $6.00
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Built to hit both sides of fig at once; the bright, green bitterness of fresh fig alongside the deep, jammy sweetness of cooked fig. It uses Guatemalan cardamom and elemi resin to bridge the two. It's become the house's most reviewed and talked-about scents!
Ki-Oku
Smells like catching the last light of golden hour
from $9.00
d'Annam
Smells like candied fruits and celebratory spirits
from $8.00
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Built around the joy of Lunar New Year; millions of people traveling home to reunite with family.
Marlou
Smells like a kitty!
from $8.00
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Named as a play on "manicure" and "carnal," this one leans into an old-world, feline sensuality.
Room 1015
Smells like a spontaneous Tuesday afternoon at the laundromat
Fresh
Room 1015
Smells like a spontaneous Tuesday afternoon at the laundromat
from $12.00
the bit you might not know
An unusual muse for a fragrance...laundromats! The brand built this around the idea of unplanned romance in mundane spaces, "even in a laundromat at 3PM on a Tuesday." Strawberry and blackcurrant meet a bubblegum accord, kept playful rather than serious. A favorite at Solvi, this will get you...
Björk and Berries
Smells like laundry hung out to dry in the sunshine
from $9.00
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Will turn powdery or lactonic depending on your skin composition...
Jorum Studio
Smells like a quiet, velvety texture
from $6.50
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The brand's bestselling fragrance, ten years in the making. Trimerous is built entirely around the overlooked facets of orris root (iris), the flower with three petals the name refers to.
État Libre d'Orange
Smells like fresh bread and quiet mornings
from $8.00
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Built as a meditation on true love as "an eternal beginning again," the concept centers on ancient hearts finding their way back together, words failing while souls speak in complete transparency. Created by perfumer Jérôme di Marino, it's framed as the scent of a lover's breakfast: warm brioche...
Baruti
Smells like powdery iris and almond macaron warmed by waxy amber
Musky
Baruti
Smells like powdery iris and almond macaron warmed by waxy amber
from $10.00
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Incredibly artistic and juxtaposed, a must-try if you love dark florals.
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like elevated spices, patchouli, and warm woods
Woody
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like elevated spices, patchouli, and warm woods
from $9.00
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A citrus-forward woody fragrance that opens with bergamot, lemon, and orange before shifting into rose, wild berries, cacao, and cinnamon, an unusual semigourmand-meets-citrus pairing.
Marlou
Smells unmistakably human
from $8.00
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Conceived quite literally as "skin in a bottle," built to smell like the warm, humid parts of the body, or the ghost of a person left behind on a worn shirt after it's been washed.
27 87
Smells like sun-warmed banana and honey with jasmine
from $11.00
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Intensely banana that fades into an indolic floral scent.
27 87
Smells like crisp metallic air
from $11.00
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For our ozonic perfume lovers.
Federico Cantelli
Smells like realistic cocoa powder and soft vanilla
Gourmand
Federico Cantelli
Smells like realistic cocoa powder and soft vanilla
from $5.00
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like a Mediterranean fig tree after rain
from $9.00
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Italian for "remember me," inspired by bright, luminous nostalgia rather than melancholy.
Scent Control
Smells like beach air and creamy amber
Amber
Scent Control
Smells like beach air and creamy amber
from $7.70
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Built to feel like "a gentle but firm boundary" in scent form. Comforting on the surface, assertive underneath
Marissa Zappas
Smells like creamy florals, soft spice, and incense
Amber
Marissa Zappas
Smells like creamy florals, soft spice, and incense
from $10.00
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Inspired by the 1962 B-horror film of the same name, following the story's sole car-crash survivor as she relocates to Utah and drifts into a spectral, electric dimension.
d'Annam
Smells like dark-roast coffee swirled with sweet condensed milk
Gourmand
d'Annam
Smells like dark-roast coffee swirled with sweet condensed milk
from $8.00
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Light enough that it can be worn year-round.
Hilde Soliani
Smells like it'll tickle your nose
from $5.00
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Not inspired by the ocean at all, despite the salty note! Hilde built this around the memory of the elegant crystal salt and pepper shakers on her family's holiday table growing up.
Room 1015
Smells like a teenage dirtbag baby
from $12.00
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Directly inspired by Vivienne Westwood's legendary London punk boutique SEX on King's Road. Described by the brand as "the idealism of adolescence wrapped in a heavy leather jacket."
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like your dad set up the sprinkler on a hot day
Fresh
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like your dad set up the sprinkler on a hot day
from $10.00
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An ambitious formal exercise. David used one fragrance material for each color of the actual rainbow (red mandarin, orange, yellow elemi, green cedar, blue almond blossom, indigo grass, violet), inspired by Terry Riley's ambient album A Rainbow in Curved Air.
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like desert peach and salty caramel at the edge of the Indian Ocean
Fruity
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like desert peach and salty caramel at the edge of the Indian Ocean
from $8.00
the bit you might not know
The first perfume in the world to use Australian Desert Peach (Quandong) as a note; a tart, rhubarb-and-salt-tinged native fruit from the Broome region. It's built to capture the specific golden moment when a Western Australian sunset dips into the Indian Ocean.
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like sea spray and coastal moss on a perfect summer day
Aromatic
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like sea spray and coastal moss on a perfect summer day
from $8.00
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The very first fragrance the house ever released, and it sold out overnight before it even officially launched. Built around a naturally harvested Australian coastal moss with a genuinely salty, mineralic quality.
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